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Program directory · Veterans Affairs Canada

Financial Support Program

Program code
BND00 (VAC)
Core responsibility
Financial, physical and mental well being of eligible Veterans.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2012-13 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2012-13. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Financial Support Program 2012-13: $120MFinancial Support Program 2013-14: $163MFinancial Support Program 2014-15: $205MFinancial Support Program 2015-16: $247MFinancial Support Program 2016-17: $366MFinancial Support Program 2017-18: $561MFinancial Support Program
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Financial Support ProgramThis program2012-13 – 2017-18$1.66B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2013-14Spending $163M, against $120M in 2012-13 (+36%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Spending $205M, against $163M in 2013-14 (+26%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $366M, against $247M in 2015-16 (+48%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $561M, against $366M in 2016-17 (+53%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $163M2013-142014-15: $205M2014-152015-16: $247M2015-162016-17: $366M2016-172017-18: $561M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$163M
2014-15—$205M
2015-16—$247M
2016-17—$366M
2017-18—$561M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 462013-14: 462013-142014-15: 392014-15: 422014-152015-16: 412015-16: 502015-162016-17: 602016-17: 742016-172017-18: 892017-18: 772017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-144646
2014-153942
2015-164150
2016-176074
2017-188977

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.